St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-08
The Great Koycott.

The boycott of the Pennsylvania road
was still the general subject of conversation
among railroad men yesterday. The mys-
terry in regard to the immunity which the
Milwaukee & st. Paul enjoys from it
deepens. The officials of that road assert
that they heartily subscribe to the Circular
A" letter, Jointly agreed upon by the West
ern State Passenger association and that
they stand to it and have not changed, and
the exception of that road from the boy
colt is without their solicitation. 1t is
therefore claimed that the exception was
made by the Pennsylvania for the purpose
OF causing break among the roads. The
Burlington was also excepted, but that
road says it is in accord with the Western
roads and therefore the Eastern roads re-
Scinded the exception and have now boy
cotted the Burlington. The Manitoba has
joined the Eastern roads, and the officers Of
that road yesterday gave the following rea-
sons for their action:
We believe in the advisability of paying
commissions and expect that the interstate
commissioners will decide that their payment
is lawful. The trunk lines having arbitrarily
taken our tickets off sale and other lines into
territory competitive with US having agreed
to discontinue commissions, thereby keeping
their tickets on sale, we were losing revenue
without accomplishing any good to ourselves
commissions until the decision of the inter-
state commissioners was had as to their con-
unued payment. the continuance of the sale
of through tickets being matter of revenue
with US and of accommodation to the public.
There is good deal more opposition to
the domineering course of the Eastern
roads than was calculated upon. The roads
i'll ST. Paul yesterday received
A COMMUNICATIONS FROM j. CHARLTON,
general passenger agent OF the Chicago e
Alton road, directed to j. n. Abbott, chair
man of the Western States Passenger as
sociation, Chicago, that is a stinger, and
reads as follows:
To lines east of us who appear to be on
the point OF deviating into violations of the
interstate commerce law, have sent mes
SageS to-day, OF which give you copies be-
low. To ]. R. Wood, general passenger and
ticket agent OF the Pennsylvania road, have
said; 1--WE desire to avoid committing our
selves to anything not prescribed in the inter-
state commerce law. 1t will be time enough
for any of our connections to seek redress
and for us to be held for penalty before the
commission and before court, when we are
found violating the law, which we do not in
tend to be found doing. We claim continued
interchange of passenger business under
section three of the law, as quoted to you in
my former telegram, and we hereby reiterate
our notice that we are prepared and desire
to continue such Interchange with you in
strict and literal conformity to the law To
Mr.. Monet, general passenger agent of the
New York Central s. Hudson Biver road,
telegraphed: 1--WE protest against your pun.
ishing us for an act which we have not com
mtted, and which, if committed, would no;
be violation of the interstate commerce
law. We desire to avoid committing ourselves
TO anything not prescribed in the interstate
law. 1t will be time enough for any connec-
tion of ours TO seek redress and for US to be
held for penalty before the commission or be-
fore court when we are found violating the
law, which we do not intend to be found
doing. We claim continued interchangs Of
passenger business under section three of the
law, which provides that every common car
rier shall afford all reasonable, proper and
equal facilities for the interchange of traffic
between their respective lines and shall not
discriminate in their rates and charges be-
tween such connecting lines We therefore
request you to continue to interchange
passenger business with our lines in the
usual way in which such passenger business
has beer interchanged hitherto and we
hereby give you notice that we prepared
and desire to continue such interchange with
you in strict and literal conformity to the
law" / thought that it might interest you to
know what we were saying to our Eastern
connections, and for that reason have given
you these copies, which you are at liberty to
use with our colleagues of the Western States
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